John White returned to England after failing to find the lost Roanoke colonists.
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A V-2 rocket captured the first photograph of Earth from outer space.
The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
The Guinness World Records awarded Paul McCartney the best-selling singer-songwriter of all time.
The EU declared that single-use plastics would be banned by 2021.
The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
